Joseph Gfroerer

War Stories from the Drug Survey

How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health

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Produktbeschreibung

An insider account that encapsulates thirty years of experience in conducting data science in a political context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 188mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781107122703
• ISBN-10: 1107122708
• Artikelnr.: 54309783

Autorenporträt

Joseph Gfroerer was responsible for analysis and supervision of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health for more than three decades as a statistician at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). A widely recognized expert in methods for substance use surveys, he authored dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and hundreds of government reports on survey methodology and substance use epidemiology. A member of the American Statistical Association for over thrity-five years, he has received numerous awards from NIDA, SAMHSA, the White House, and the American Public Health Association for his work on the survey.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. President Nixon launches the war on drugs
2. The survey continues, as illicit drug use peaks
3. Cocaine and new directions for the survey
4. The White House needs data and a bigger survey
5. Criticism, correction, and communication
6. The survey moves to SAMHSA
7. Rising drug use in the 1990s
8. Better sample, better analysis, but not always
9. A perfect redesign storm
10. Continuing survey design improvements
11. Analytic bankruptcy, reorganization, recovery, and resilience
12. How to redesign an ongoing survey, or not
13. Lessons learned and future challenges.